LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Heroes of Sea and Land. To the Editor
SIR,—When I was in St. Paul's Cathe- dral a few months since, I was moved afresh at the sight of the magnificent monuments to our great naval and mili- tary heroes, particularly those of Lord Nelson and the Duke of Wellington; and, as I...
Category: Correspondence
Statement of the Several Life-Boats Belonging to Or In Connection With the National Life-Boat Institution
No. of When No. | STATION. Length. Breadth. Oare. Station* ENGLAND. Ft. ID. Ft. in. 1 NORTHUMBERLAND BERWICK-ON-TWEED - - -: ...
Category: Articles
Standing By Fishing Boats
The Scarborough motor life-boat on 2nd January, 1939. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Screw Steamer Venetian
NEW BRIGHTON.—Eockets were observed from the Crosby Lightship, and from the Waterloo and New Brighton Coastguard Stations, on the night of the 12th of. January. The No. 1 Life-boat, Willie and Arthur, put off in tow of the steam-tug...
Royal National Life-Boat Institution. Summary of Its Proceedings from 1st January, 1860, to 31st December, 1862
ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION.
Summary of its Proceedings from 1st January, 1860, to 31st December, 1862.
SINCE the beginning of the year 1860, the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION has...
Category: Annual Reports
The Annual Meeting
THE annual meeting was held at the Central Hall, Westminster, on the 23rd of March, 1954, with Sir Godfrey Baring, Bt., K.B.E., chairman of the Committee of Management, in the chair.
H.R.H. the Princess Royal pre- sented...
Category: Meetings
Who rules the waves?
Over 70% of our planet’s surface is water but who is in charge of traffic on this vast highway and how has maritime law evolved?
This year sees the 100th anniversary of the sinking of the...
Category: Articles
Start, of Brixham
On the 4th Jan- uary, 1869, the trawler Start, of Brixham, was observed trying to beat to windward to obtain the shelter of Babbicombe Bay, a gale blowing at the time from the S.W., with a considerable sea. Just then she lost her mast in a...
In For The Long Haul
In for the long haul The yacht Paka’a was returning across the Channel from Cherbourg, on the evening of 27 May 2007, when her auxiliary engine began to fail The weather was appalling – against the 50–60 knot headwinds and torrential rain,...
Category: Articles
The Aberdeen Trawler Star of Victory
Wick, Caithness-shire.—The Aber- deen trawler Star of Victory had stranded near Keiss on the 25th Octo- ber, 1939, and, as already described, the Wick life-boat City of Edinburgh helped her on that day and rescued her crew of ten on the...